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Speaker 1: and the official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Savannah Humoller, Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 3: And Tommy DeVito. Week starts now ty noon on a
Speaker 3: Wednesday here with the New York Football Giants coming to town.
Speaker 3: It's time to get focused on the next opponent. Are
Speaker 3: you fired up? Mickey? So?
Speaker 4: Should we count how many times we say Danny DeVito?
Speaker 2: Ya does?
Speaker 4: Every time I get ready to say that kid's name,
Speaker 4: I have to check myself because I'm getting ready to
Speaker 4: say Danny instead of Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 5: So that's the quarterback.
Speaker 3: That's the quarterback, the quarterback. I mean, you sound surprised.
Speaker 6: I didn't know who the heck was gonna be behind
Speaker 6: the two they went down.
Speaker 3: Of course, Daniel Jones is out. Taylor is already on injured.
Speaker 6: Taylor stopped getting hit in the ribs. It seems like
Speaker 6: every time he gets injured it's in the rib area.
Speaker 3: He's got big ribs. You get you get exposed playing
Speaker 3: quarterback in this.
Speaker 4: List, it's too small, they're not strong.
Speaker 3: And so it is Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 4: So Daniel Jones, as I read, got hurt, tried to
Speaker 4: come back and basically nearly fell out, and so they
Speaker 4: had to make that change to well, you know, and
Speaker 4: how how fitting is this? Did you see which high
Speaker 4: school you went to in Jersey?
Speaker 3: Don Bosco?
Speaker 2: Bosco, the Veto Bosco.
Speaker 3: It's a well known high school in New Jersey?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 3: You know who? I can give you a list of names,
Speaker 3: but I can, off the top of my head, I
Speaker 3: know Chris Simms went there.
Speaker 5: Well, you could probably get a list of movies that
Speaker 5: has the name Bascle.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I got name Sims.
Speaker 3: I got a lot more Tommy DeVito. Then I wasn't
Speaker 3: gonna I wasn't gonna use it right off the top.
Speaker 3: Would like for me to use some Tommy DeVito off
Speaker 3: the top?
Speaker 2: Syracuse in Illinois.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he went to Syracuse in Illinois. But he's got
Speaker 3: a lot of pressure on him to live up to
Speaker 3: that DeVito name. Oh you know who the most famous
Speaker 3: Tommy DeVito is?
Speaker 5: To tell?
Speaker 3: Now, Savannah, you have no idea. Everson doesn't have any
Speaker 3: Mickey might have an idea, Everson, might I might he
Speaker 3: heard of the Four Seasons hotel? Yeah, the Singing groun
Speaker 3: Uh huh. Tommy DeVito founded the Four Seasons, He didn't
Speaker 3: Frankie frank I like the hotel. Maybe the hotel.
Speaker 5: Maybe the hotel was named because.
Speaker 2: Connection guys aren't enough.
Speaker 3: Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons, right right, Tommy DeVito
Speaker 3: founded the Four Seasons and Frankie Valley that can you
Speaker 3: name any of their songs?
Speaker 5: Well, it's a play.
Speaker 3: They have a play, right yeah. Yeah, and then Jersey Boys,
Speaker 3: that's right, and he's from Jersey and Tommy DeVito was
Speaker 3: from Jersey. There's a great storyline.
Speaker 4: It's a movie too. They turned the movie into a play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you heard of the song old What a Night
Speaker 3: Late December back in sixty three. Yeah, yeah, that's the
Speaker 3: Four Seasons. I have sherry. Yes, big girls don't cry? Yes,
Speaker 3: there you go, all right, there, you've run out of ammunition.
Speaker 3: Now we could probably find for the count from the
Speaker 3: Cowboys standpoint. It's just a good thing this game is
Speaker 3: not being played in in December. In December in twenty three,
Speaker 3: it was Oh what a Night Late December back in
Speaker 3: sixty three.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, good research.
Speaker 3: That's my research on Tommy.
Speaker 5: That's my only four season song. I think I know which.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know how gils don't cry. You've heard of
Speaker 3: that one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have heard that one.
Speaker 4: You know how he found it? Right, he googled Tommy
Speaker 4: Tommy DeVito and all those Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 5: This Tommy DeVito came up.
Speaker 3: He died in twenty twenty. Oh he did. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: he had COVID and passed away, but he was ninety
Speaker 3: two years old. He's a legend in Jersey, Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 5: That's why they have the jersey.
Speaker 7: So Tommy has something to live up to.
Speaker 3: That's right. There's a lot of pressure on Tommy DeVito. Now,
Speaker 3: I got to figure out if he is not as
Speaker 3: a quarterback, he's going to become as famous as this
Speaker 3: Tommy Devine.
Speaker 5: He better starts singing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Undrafted rookie too, by the.
Speaker 3: Way, undrafted. He didn't even make the Big Green notebook.
Speaker 3: That's that's how undrafted.
Speaker 2: Far down the line, right, So he.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, he finished at.
Speaker 3: Illinois, Yes he did. He started at Syracuse.
Speaker 4: So, I mean the Elin and I were I think
Speaker 4: decent last year.
Speaker 3: For a while they were. They were then because of
Speaker 3: the Brown twins, Chase Brown and Sydney Brown, Chase Brown
Speaker 3: the running back, Sidney Brown the safety.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's interesting, Bill. That's why when people ask me, what,
Speaker 4: what's what's the Cowboys up against this game, and you know,
Speaker 4: going forward, and I said, they're up against themselves. They
Speaker 4: don't need to worry about who they're playing. They need
Speaker 4: to worry about themselves. And if you go out and
Speaker 4: play the way you're supposed to play, you were good
Speaker 4: enough to beat these teams and extend that home winning
Speaker 4: streak of eleven to twelve. Go on the road, you
Speaker 4: play Carolina having their having their troubles, and then you
Speaker 4: get the Commanders here at home again, and then the
Speaker 4: Eagles in Seattle.
Speaker 3: The Seattle first, and then the Seattle and then the Eagles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so four out of the next five at home,
Speaker 4: just go play.
Speaker 6: And it's gonna it's going to have to come from
Speaker 6: the defense. Well, they really too, It has to come
Speaker 6: from them, you know. And the guys at the fan
Speaker 6: just asked me, you know what.
Speaker 4: Uh. Dan Quinn pointed out the two things that he
Speaker 4: was disappointed at in the game is they didn't get
Speaker 4: any takeaways, and they weren't as good at third down
Speaker 4: as they had been. And they asked me, well, what
Speaker 4: you think was the biggest and I said, well, third down,
Speaker 4: because if you look at the third quarter they had
Speaker 4: they basically had the ball the entire third quarter because
Speaker 4: they couldn't get them off the field. And Okay, stopping
Speaker 4: on third down, I don't know, that's maybe more talent
Speaker 4: to do that than Takeawaysky. They just kind of happened,
Speaker 4: and they got lucky because they fumbled the ball twice
Speaker 4: and it came right back to them, especially the first one.
Speaker 4: The first drive, Sam Williams gets a sack fumbling the ball,
Speaker 4: one hops right back to Hertz.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't game plan for two of this bounces, right,
Speaker 6: but you can game plan to beat them on third down, man.
Speaker 4: And they converted fifty percent, and if you throw in
Speaker 4: the two on fourth down, it probably goes to about
Speaker 4: seventy percent. So that's what needed to take place. Defensively,
Speaker 4: they got to do better on third down stopping people,
Speaker 4: which means that they didn't get their pass rush going
Speaker 4: enough in that game.
Speaker 6: I think if you dial it up defensively versus any
Speaker 6: of these teams coming up and even this past game.
Speaker 6: Then your offense really didn't have to play under such pressure,
Speaker 6: which is what the design for this team is in
Speaker 6: the first place.
Speaker 5: That's the way McCarthy wants it to run. Well. That
Speaker 5: had worked out so.
Speaker 6: Well, right in certain games, and the ones that we
Speaker 6: lost that didn't work out well. Our defense didn't play
Speaker 6: well and offensively, we didn't make the plays that we
Speaker 6: needed to make. So I think the defense needs to
Speaker 6: drive this entire next few games. They need to be
Speaker 6: the catalyst to the Cowboy success.
Speaker 4: And absolutely, and you know, then the other question I
Speaker 4: got was, what do you why do you think they
Speaker 4: score so many points in these other games? And it's like, well,
Speaker 4: the defense gets the ball back to the offense, either
Speaker 4: stopping on third down or takeaways or scoring on.
Speaker 6: Defense playing aheadway, playing ahead, right, We play ahead just
Speaker 6: as well as any other team in the NFL.
Speaker 3: So the question was, why do they score more points
Speaker 3: against other teams?
Speaker 4: Well, other than saying the obvious that they're better than right.
Speaker 6: Exactly, we're losing to Yeah, well that's the.
Speaker 2: Reason, but they but they.
Speaker 4: Put the enormous amount of points. Yeah, think about it.
Speaker 4: The amount of points they've scored what they only had
Speaker 4: one close game that they won, the Chargers game twenty seventeen,
Speaker 4: and everything else they piled on, but the defenses had
Speaker 4: a hand in there or special teams.
Speaker 6: That that should be the case for the next few
Speaker 6: games as far as I'm concerned, if that's what we're
Speaker 6: going to if we're going to win in Cowboy fashion,
Speaker 6: because right now, the defense needs to carry it offensively,
Speaker 6: I just don't like putting that much pressure on our offense.
Speaker 6: Our offensive line just not playing as well as we
Speaker 6: wanted to. So I'd rather we put we lead this
Speaker 6: up to the defense and go back to the game plan,
Speaker 6: not necessarily the effectiveness, but the game plan or the
Speaker 6: thought process of let the defense carry the game.
Speaker 2: Now, think go ahead.
Speaker 7: My one thing is based off of them playing Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 7: I think that they're going to utilize their run game
Speaker 7: a little bit more. So that's going to be something
Speaker 7: that the defense needs to going to have. For Sequon
Speaker 7: Roan Barklay, it's been up and down for him this season.
Speaker 7: I'm pulling up some of his stats.
Speaker 4: Well, I want to say the Cowboys did a pretty
Speaker 4: good job at him in the first game, right.
Speaker 3: Twelve carriers for fifty one yards. You can live with that,
Speaker 3: I think, but you got ahead.
Speaker 6: Yeah, See, those stats could mean something. It could mean
Speaker 6: mean something totally different. Sorry, it could mean something totally different.
Speaker 6: You know, in a particular game you got twelve or
Speaker 6: fifty one. Those might be some key fifty one yard
Speaker 6: Russians if we're not ahead, if the defense isn't taken
Speaker 6: over the game.
Speaker 3: And it was the first drive of the game, they
Speaker 3: ran the ball a lot and then they abandoned the
Speaker 3: run after.
Speaker 5: That because we went ahead.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: Had twelve carries for fifty one, one for eighteen. So
Speaker 4: that's eleven carries for what thirty three yards if my
Speaker 4: math is accurate.
Speaker 5: It's not significant.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Barkley on the first drive of the game
Speaker 3: against the Cowboys had one, two, three, four carries. And
Speaker 3: remember Daniel Jones, he had three carry. Daniel Jones had
Speaker 3: three carries for twenty seven yards on that first drive
Speaker 3: of the season against the Cowboys. And then Barkley had
Speaker 3: four carries for nineteen yards on that drive. So of that,
Speaker 3: twelve for fifty one and who he's eight for thirty
Speaker 3: nine after that. But and then they had the block
Speaker 3: field goal. They drove right down the field all the
Speaker 3: way to the eight yard line before they had a
Speaker 3: false start remember on Thomas through left tackle at Parsons caused.
Speaker 3: Then they had the fumbled snap and lost fourteen. And
Speaker 3: then they lined up for a forty five yard field
Speaker 3: goal and it was blocked by one Yer Thomas and
Speaker 3: returned by Igbinogany.
Speaker 4: Yes, and now it's I said.
Speaker 3: The last time we mentioned ig Bonogany's name, other than.
Speaker 5: The enactors, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: It was that first first possession, and the Giant season
Speaker 3: went downhill from there.
Speaker 4: And then the Cowboys sword right.
Speaker 5: And see that's the thing.
Speaker 3: It means until Arizona.
Speaker 6: They are these little pockets of hope for the opposition.
Speaker 5: I don't want to give them that.
Speaker 6: I don't want to give any opposition like the Cardinals,
Speaker 6: a pocket of hope to where they say, okay, we
Speaker 6: we were successful, then let's continue, you know, let's continue
Speaker 6: to be successful.
Speaker 5: I don't want that.
Speaker 6: That that gives any team, well, no matter how good
Speaker 6: they are, it gives them hope.
Speaker 5: I don't want to give them any hope.
Speaker 4: Do you want to start on Martavius Bryant or wait,
Speaker 4: for the next segment.
Speaker 3: Since I was out with friends last night dinner and
Speaker 3: it was in a sports bar and came up on
Speaker 3: the screen that Cowboys signed, and so I had them
Speaker 3: going it didn't did not say, did not say his
Speaker 3: first day, And so I had going for a good
Speaker 3: half hour.
Speaker 2: No, you did not.
Speaker 3: You know, he's been out of the league since twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: but you know they're hoping that he's still got something.
Speaker 3: Bryan wide receiver.
Speaker 5: That's not cool.
Speaker 3: They failed these guys, they're not real sharp.
Speaker 4: They failed to put the sixth floor part in there.
Speaker 5: We got to talk about that.
Speaker 3: We'll get to him, all right, you want to get
Speaker 3: to him next, all right? Just getting started on mix shots.
Speaker 3: What Bryant did the Cowboys sign it wide receiver? Yesterday?
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Speaker 3: I've got one clarification. And don Bosco Prep the alumni.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Chris Simms who went there. It was Matt Simms,
Speaker 3: his brother, who went to don Bosco Prep.
Speaker 5: In New Jersey.
Speaker 3: Little difference, So all right we continue on here. And
Speaker 3: the Cowboys did sign a wide receiver named Bryant who
Speaker 3: has been out of the league for some time. Yesterday.
Speaker 5: Boy, that's even more of a tease.
Speaker 4: Six four two ten? Does that blow your deal?
Speaker 3: Sometimes des played larger than I did.
Speaker 4: Yes, he did, probably was heavier than Mark Tavis. Bryant,
Speaker 4: thirty one years old, last played in week ten of
Speaker 4: the twenty eighteen season for the Raiders.
Speaker 5: Suspend on guys, talk to me about this?
Speaker 4: Suspended three times? The last time, uh, indefinitely and was
Speaker 4: recently in stated over the weekend.
Speaker 5: I believe it was. Well, why was he in definitely suspended.
Speaker 4: Substance abuse or violating the substance abuse policy more than
Speaker 4: once three times? And we signed him to the practice squad?
Speaker 3: Okay, So now he has been playing football recently?
Speaker 5: Yes, okay to him?
Speaker 3: He played. He was signed in January of twenty twenty
Speaker 3: one with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
Speaker 3: He was placed on the suspended list after failing to
Speaker 3: report for training camp. Never played for the Argos. Then
Speaker 3: he signed with the Massachusetts Pirates of the Indoor Football
Speaker 3: League indoor arena yeah, indoor Yeah. And then the Edmonton
Speaker 3: Elks announced they had signed Bryant in February twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: I don't know the Edmonton is at the Canadian Football
Speaker 3: League team now they're not. Oh yes, if they were, okay,
Speaker 3: oh okay, he played. No, the fan controlled Football Beast
Speaker 3: recruited Bryant to the team that was that league that
Speaker 3: was like made for tis in league that Cavante played in.
Speaker 3: I think, yes, yeah, yes he did. Then he was
Speaker 3: the fifth pick in the in this year's XFL Skill
Speaker 3: Players Draft, selected by the Vegas Vipers.
Speaker 4: Where he had fourteen catches for one hundred and fifty four.
Speaker 5: Yards in how many games?
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't see how many games he played, but
Speaker 4: I think they only played like eight, so it wasn't
Speaker 4: like maybe ten or ten. Yeah, it wasn't like he
Speaker 4: went out there and you know, turned the league upside down.
Speaker 5: So who does he know?
Speaker 4: So I think the agent basically started calling everybody, and
Speaker 4: the Cowboys said to me, it's a shot in the dark.
Speaker 4: You put him on the practice squad. Now think about it.
Speaker 4: He hadn't played football, and even he said, I'm in
Speaker 4: good shape, but I'm not football. He did the interview
Speaker 4: in the locker room opened early today. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 4: in football shape. Well how do you get in football shape?
Speaker 4: You got to play football, right, but you also got
Speaker 4: to ramp up. So is he going to practice in
Speaker 4: pads tomorrow. I highly doubt that. You know, do you
Speaker 4: need one week to ramp up two weeks to ramp up?
Speaker 4: And if it's two weeks, then we're talking after Carolina
Speaker 4: and there's no padded practice before Thanksgiving, and so now
Speaker 4: you would get one practice before the Seattle, is it?
Speaker 4: I can't keep it straight. Seattle's before Seattles before Philadelphiladelphia,
Speaker 4: So you're not going to play that week. So this
Speaker 4: is like, was there are four seasons? Something about December?
Speaker 3: Oh, what a night late December in twenty three, he's
Speaker 3: going to have it. Great night there you go in
Speaker 3: late This is basically about This is basically what Mickey's
Speaker 3: saying is, Okay, they'll see what they've got with him.
Speaker 3: And he's on the practice squad. There's sixteen players on
Speaker 3: the practice squad. If he's got a little something, then
Speaker 3: late December and twenty three, what a night it will
Speaker 3: be when Martavis Bryant scores a touchdown against the Detroity.
Speaker 2: I think about it.
Speaker 4: They were looking for a dimension they don't have. They
Speaker 4: don't have any receiver. That's six's four, okay, you know
Speaker 4: first in five at the six, Yeah, you might throw
Speaker 4: it to the guy six ' fourth, right.
Speaker 7: He was very positive in the locker room this morning.
Speaker 7: He was talking about how excited he was to just
Speaker 7: be back in an NFL facility and he wants to
Speaker 7: have the opportunity to just put in work. And you know,
Speaker 7: I think we'll see how it plays out, but I think,
Speaker 7: like to your point, Mickey, it's going to take a
Speaker 7: little while to develop back into an NFL.
Speaker 4: And don't you think he was situation very humble.
Speaker 7: Extremely humble. He was very thankful to just be here today.
Speaker 4: Somebody asked him what his best trait was and he
Speaker 4: said explosive, but he left it at that, Yeah, idiot,
Speaker 4: and you know, go on and on and.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I definitely remember the name from playing in the NFL,
Speaker 6: and he was very good.
Speaker 4: That I do was the first two seasons, Yeah, with
Speaker 4: the Steelers. He was a fourth round pick, had fourteen
Speaker 4: touchdown catches.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have Yeah, from twenty fourteen to twenty eighteen.
Speaker 7: I don't think he played in twenty sixteen. That's the
Speaker 7: only year that's missing. When he his time in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 7: it's all pretty good. In twenty fifteen, when is probably
Speaker 7: his best year, seven hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 4: Yards and he ended up getting suspended for a couple
Speaker 4: of games that bad year, by the way, in twenty fifteen, yeah,
Speaker 4: and then twenty sixteen when he got suspended again, then
Speaker 4: they they did it indefinitely, I believe it was.
Speaker 7: And then Oakland not a standout performance there, just two
Speaker 7: hundred sixty six yards, no touchdowns.
Speaker 4: And that was the year they said, okay, you're out
Speaker 4: for good basically.
Speaker 6: So obviously we've done our research on this guy, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, well, they know what happened to him, but
Speaker 6: do they know where his head is now?
Speaker 4: Well, they're going to find out. Yeah, And you got
Speaker 4: sixteen guys on the practice squad, right, so if he's
Speaker 4: the sixteenth guy in the practice squad, they probably took
Speaker 4: the place of somebody that had, you know, was a
Speaker 4: career practice squad guy. He wasn't going to get to play.
Speaker 5: You remember.
Speaker 6: When Jimmy got here in eighty nine and we were
Speaker 6: just working out all kinds of people out the revolving door, right,
Speaker 6: you know, that was the mentality we had, you know,
Speaker 6: because just didn't have any talent at all. I mean
Speaker 6: I remember by defensive linemen. Oh, it was just bad.
Speaker 6: That's why we talked about Eugene making all those tackles
Speaker 6: down the field. He had to because there was nothing
Speaker 6: up front and nothing stopped. He had to chase people
Speaker 6: all over the place and two hundred plus tackles, which
Speaker 6: is amazing. Is this where we are? Is this where
Speaker 6: we are mentally? I mean while we out here.
Speaker 4: But they're not playing. These guys, I understand, have a
Speaker 4: practice school. I'm just trying to figure it out. I'm
Speaker 4: just really trying to.
Speaker 3: Figure it out.
Speaker 4: Think about Rashawn Evans. Yeah, everybody got all excited about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't have a snap in the game special.
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean he won't be used sometimes. I
Speaker 3: mean they're getting ready to play four games in Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he will. He's got yeah, he I mean he
Speaker 3: has a chance to will. I mean he just yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean he had he absorbed snaps in the Rams game
Speaker 4: after it was after it was forty three to twenty. Yeah,
Speaker 4: right exactly.
Speaker 6: But but but you gotta have some compare Evans to
Speaker 6: Brian No, No, I mean Evans is next man up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian is like the sixth next man. I think
Speaker 3: he's not You're not even close.
Speaker 5: To being why are you playing with toys?
Speaker 4: Because the sixteenth guy in your practice squad probably wasn't
Speaker 4: going to help you one bit.
Speaker 5: This is it just to take a look like you
Speaker 5: guys are genius.
Speaker 4: This is this is less than kicking tires. This is
Speaker 4: a shot in the dark.
Speaker 5: Do we once again? It's like, man, I don't know.
Speaker 6: This is still so it's so it doesn't hurt unnecessary, it.
Speaker 7: Seems, it seems random.
Speaker 6: It's just it's it sounds like what the team would
Speaker 6: do if like, all right, we got nothing else to
Speaker 6: play for, let's sign more Tavius.
Speaker 3: I assumed we had a workout.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had better.
Speaker 3: Saw something in the workout.
Speaker 5: I'm going to drink my cleats. Boy, I'm telling you, you
Speaker 5: get this crap.
Speaker 2: How about fresh legs?
Speaker 4: He might be thirty one when he's got the body
Speaker 4: of a twenty seven year old because he hasn't played
Speaker 4: any football.
Speaker 5: I got.
Speaker 6: I have to see how this turns out. We got
Speaker 6: to stick a pin in this guy. I have to
Speaker 6: see how this turns out, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, you're going to have to wait till
Speaker 2: the late December.
Speaker 3: Late December, so okay, not that we need to read
Speaker 3: between the lines of this just does it? Does it
Speaker 3: make you wonder if they are wondering about what they
Speaker 3: have on the depth chart at wide receiver?
Speaker 4: Well, god, I well think about it other than other
Speaker 4: than Turpin and Tolbert's coming on. You know what? What
Speaker 4: there's nobody that size though? What is what is Tolbert?
Speaker 4: Do you think he's like six one six two the most?
Speaker 6: He looks like he's six feet But I'm horrible as
Speaker 6: we found outs.
Speaker 3: You know who's working out today thinking when they see
Speaker 3: it six floor wide receiver Plexical Burrows is working out today.
Speaker 4: Years old one and even Gallup he's six one. So
Speaker 4: they don't have a guy this size.
Speaker 5: But but they're not questioning what we have.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. I think they're just taking it.
Speaker 4: It's like what if I play this guy five snaps
Speaker 4: a game.
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about Harold Carmichael.
Speaker 2: Where did he finish?
Speaker 3: He finished it?
Speaker 9: Here?
Speaker 5: Where did he finish?
Speaker 3: And he's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 9: This is not.
Speaker 3: Hope for the best, but.
Speaker 6: Some tall guys that we can sign if you want
Speaker 6: to height, Yeah, let's just go get hell Carmer.
Speaker 5: Let's go get a Maverick that just got cut.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, throwing up to Dirk to.
Speaker 6: Some I have to see how this turns out, because
Speaker 6: it just seems like it it reads some desperation, which
Speaker 6: I know we're not desperate.
Speaker 5: I know this.
Speaker 4: I just don't hold your breast. So then we might
Speaker 4: have spent more time on it than needed.
Speaker 5: Only because it's such a baffling transaction. I'm sorry. This
Speaker 5: is crazy to me. This is crazy to me.
Speaker 3: You think we spent more time on it than the
Speaker 3: Cowboys did, But seriously, it is the like the sixteenth
Speaker 3: man on the practice squad. So it's not you're not
Speaker 3: spending anything.
Speaker 7: He's not going to play Sunday again.
Speaker 5: That why, it just still why. I just I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I showed something in the past and you just want
Speaker 3: to see if there's anything left there.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to give you some names.
Speaker 3: Do you think Dez is on a practice I would
Speaker 3: rather get this.
Speaker 5: I would rather get this.
Speaker 4: Do you know Buddy Johnson, yes, Adam Pankey, Billy Price.
Speaker 3: No, he's your all practice squad guys.
Speaker 2: Jalen Cropper, Josh.
Speaker 5: Butler, what are you thinking when you heard that name?
Speaker 2: Princeton?
Speaker 5: She wanted me to say something just.
Speaker 6: When he said, Cropper, you looked at me likes is
Speaker 6: gonna say something.
Speaker 7: I'm just what he's asking. I think he's asking.
Speaker 4: What you're doing.
Speaker 5: No, No, you know I don't.
Speaker 4: Durrell Johnson and this is my favorite one, Buddy Johnson.
Speaker 3: That's where you started with. Yes, he did linebacker Texas A.
Speaker 6: And M, and that that does show that anonymity of
Speaker 6: these practice squad guys.
Speaker 3: But Cropper has been on the practice squad for two years.
Speaker 9: You should know who he is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Who, Yeah, I said that I have to study more with.
Speaker 4: You guys making two thousand dollars a week.
Speaker 5: Oh man, this is crazy. Yeah, you're right. We spent
Speaker 5: way too much time on this. Okay, he was on.
Speaker 9: The all training camp team.
Speaker 4: Actually he did have a good camp.
Speaker 5: He did have a great camp.
Speaker 4: Actually, Cropper, we're talking.
Speaker 5: About, well, maybe he can play wide receive it?
Speaker 3: Then come on, is uh?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 3: Is Malik Jefferson Beck on the practice squad?
Speaker 4: He is because I think he's They.
Speaker 3: Don't have elevations for him though.
Speaker 4: I think they've used him up all right. I think
Speaker 4: his that was.
Speaker 3: His last Speaking of practice squad guys who have actually
Speaker 3: played in games. This season. All right, we continue with
Speaker 3: more mixed shots in just a moment.
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Speaker 3: Oh thanks, all right. We continue with mix shots here
Speaker 3: and clarification on the practice squad. Malik Jefferson on the
Speaker 3: practice squad. He's out of elevations though, and as Mickey
Speaker 3: just pointed out in the break, Rashaan Evans, they've already
Speaker 3: used two elevations for him. They just got one left.
Speaker 3: They'll have to make a decision on Rashaan Evans next week.
Speaker 4: And if all he's doing is playing special teams, he
Speaker 4: elevated him and then who knows who gets hurt next
Speaker 4: to it, you can put him on the fifty three.
Speaker 3: And that's the big thing going forward when you've got
Speaker 3: so many games in such a limited amount of time.
Speaker 3: So from a preparation standpoint, Mike McCarthy later today three thirty,
Speaker 3: this afternoon. Is that right? On his press conference? Yes,
Speaker 3: how do you approach and they do it every year,
Speaker 3: but how does McCarthy approach this schedule from a practice
Speaker 3: standpoint as far as making sure that the team is
Speaker 3: prepared for this stretch.
Speaker 4: He's already started today.
Speaker 3: Rights north of date with the changing the schedule today.
Speaker 4: Not bringing them in until three point thirty or the
Speaker 4: press conferences three thirty, So he's bringing them in late,
Speaker 4: and they're going to have a mock game, so going
Speaker 4: to do on Wednesday what they normally also do on Friday.
Speaker 4: And so he's already preparing down the road and then Carolina,
Speaker 4: I'm sure they'll pull back a little bit on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then when you get to the week of Thanksgiving,
Speaker 4: you know, once again they're making them travel the Sunday
Speaker 4: before the Thanksgiving game. But it's Carolina. So it's what
Speaker 4: you think, maybe a two hour flight.
Speaker 5: To Charlotte to hear two hours and started to here.
Speaker 4: Flying what do you think? Probably no, much more than that.
Speaker 5: Huh, it's not that far.
Speaker 7: Two and a half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a noon game, and it's a noon
Speaker 4: game at least, and then basically Monday's off. Tuesday is
Speaker 4: a very light practice Wednesday, probably the walkthrough.
Speaker 3: So how many times will they be in pads on
Speaker 3: the practice field before Philadelphia week? So you've got four
Speaker 3: games and nineteen days. You get three games and twelve
Speaker 3: days be padgs tomorrow and then again next.
Speaker 4: Thursday, right, and then not before Thanksgiving, and then.
Speaker 3: They'll make a decision the week of because they're a game.
Speaker 4: They're going Thursday to Thursday. Then, so maybe you'll get
Speaker 4: one maybe maybe, Yeah, absolutely so. Yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 4: of mental work, but not physical work. And even you
Speaker 4: can pull back with pads on and not have as
Speaker 4: many snaps during it. And I'm sure the practice schedule
Speaker 4: will change too to try to give them off their
Speaker 4: feet as much as possible. But they're used to it.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: I want to say, once.
Speaker 4: Again, somebody took our media guide they've been facing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe it's in the cabinet, because it was almost like
Speaker 4: the NFL trying to punish them, like they got it.
Speaker 4: They get to host Thanksgiving, and so they make them
Speaker 4: play on the road the Sunday before. It's always seems
Speaker 4: to be a road game. Now, not as bad as
Speaker 4: a couple of years when they had to play the
Speaker 4: Giants on a Sunday night game before Thanksgiving. So it's
Speaker 4: at the Giants Sunday night, and basically you're out before
Speaker 4: you get to the game because you get back at
Speaker 4: four or five in the morning.
Speaker 7: From and then you only have three days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Monday's gone, right, you got Tuesday, and you
Speaker 4: don't do much on Wednesday. I just remember Jimmy Johnson's
Speaker 4: philosophy when he had to play the Thanksgiving Day game
Speaker 4: that he basically said, you do all you can to
Speaker 4: win on Sunday, and then you hope you're just good
Speaker 4: enough to get through Thanksgiving because you're not going to
Speaker 4: do much work before preparing for it.
Speaker 5: We don't lose much on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: The only time they lost on Thanksgiving when when they
Speaker 4: were bad. You know, everybody acted like, oh, what an advantage.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, it was an advantage because the Cowboys were
Speaker 4: good and they and they would win. But when they
Speaker 4: were bad, they lost on Thanksgiving. So it wasn't advance.
Speaker 5: We lost on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Yeah in eighty nine.
Speaker 5: No, well yeah, but even before that we lost to
Speaker 5: the Patriots.
Speaker 4: Probably lost in eighty six too on thanksg was it?
Speaker 5: I think that was it? So Craig James.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7: Natan Frisco would like us to talk about the Giants.
Speaker 7: I have about whether love context. I have for a
Speaker 7: head one, two, three, four, five, six seven text messages.
Speaker 3: And as we started off the show talking about the Giants,
Speaker 3: I talked about Tommy Well, by the way, he got
Speaker 3: his game against the Raiders the other day when he came.
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones started the game then got knocked out. He
Speaker 3: was fifteen out of twenty, completing seventy five percent of
Speaker 3: his passes. Now they were down. They lost thirty to
Speaker 3: six or whatever it was to the Raiders coach Bike
Speaker 3: for an interim head coach, former Giants linebacker Antonio Pearce
Speaker 3: in his first.
Speaker 4: Game fifteen of twenty one, seventy five, one touchdown, two interceptions. Okay,
Speaker 4: what else do you want to.
Speaker 3: Talk about without any practice reps to speak of. Probably
Speaker 3: that week because Daniel Jones was starting. Now he got
Speaker 3: in the previous week DeVito did and.
Speaker 4: It was not so good.
Speaker 3: Two out of seven for minus one yard, two sacks,
Speaker 3: but he didn't score a touchdown. Four carries twelve yards
Speaker 3: and a touchdown.
Speaker 4: I think that was the game. They might have set
Speaker 4: the record for negative passing yards at the end of
Speaker 4: the game or something like that.
Speaker 3: It was against the Jets of thirteen to ten loss. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Tyrod in that game was four out of seven for
Speaker 3: eight yards.
Speaker 2: You're not supposed to last.
Speaker 6: I wasn't expecting that tries his hardest.
Speaker 9: So that was it.
Speaker 3: They're quarterbacks. In that game against the Jets, they were
Speaker 3: a combined It was Tyrod Taylor and Tommy DeVito. They
Speaker 3: were a combined six for fourteen for seven yards in
Speaker 3: four sacks. Wow against but they did not throw an interception.
Speaker 5: Well, that's why the game was so close.
Speaker 3: Thirteen to ten Jets won. So I also noticed this.
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott, yes they're kind of a slow start, has
Speaker 4: now got the seventh best quarterback rating in the NFL
Speaker 4: at one hundred point seven. The two guys in front
Speaker 4: of him Jackson Lamar Jackson one hundred point eight and
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson won oh one point seven, So he's almost
Speaker 4: got the fifth highest after I think he was in
Speaker 4: the teams for the first part.
Speaker 5: Of the week.
Speaker 3: The big part of that is the last two games
Speaker 3: no picks and seven touchdown passes right.
Speaker 4: And three hundred yards in each of those games.
Speaker 5: Three. Wilson. I don't know how he's obviously that quarterback
Speaker 5: rating thing is well, here's not success.
Speaker 4: Here's what I think we've missed on him. He's got
Speaker 4: sixteen touchdown passes and only four interceptions. So that's why
Speaker 4: he's at where he's at. Dak's got the third highest
Speaker 4: completion percentage at seventy point two percent, and everybody only
Speaker 4: one quarterback one ahead of him in the rankings. Anyway,
Speaker 4: Jackson is seventy one point five percent, so Josh Allen
Speaker 4: seventy one point three percent.
Speaker 3: So do you feel better about this team today than
Speaker 3: you did before the Eagles game?
Speaker 4: I do, yes, yes, And why you and why I'm
Speaker 4: the moderator here, because they they were very competitive against basically,
Speaker 4: from a record standpoint, the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 3: You didn't think going in they would be competitive against you.
Speaker 4: No, I thought they would.
Speaker 5: In fact, I worried that they wouldn't.
Speaker 4: We picked them.
Speaker 3: It was confirmation to you that they could be. I
Speaker 3: didn't have any question that they would be.
Speaker 4: I thought they were.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was like what Brandon Brandan Cook said after the
Speaker 4: win over the Rams, and they got the passing game
Speaker 4: going and he basically said that he gives us confidence
Speaker 4: that we can be who we thought we were going
Speaker 4: to be coming out of training camp.
Speaker 6: And also Dak when his last uh it was the
Speaker 6: interview before this game, Uh, he said, I'm going for
Speaker 6: three in a row, three good games in a row.
Speaker 6: Right that was that's that's that came from confidence. It
Speaker 6: didn't really come from hope. It came from confidence.
Speaker 5: He knew. He's feeling it right now.
Speaker 6: He's kind of put it together in regards to not
Speaker 6: necessarily leaning on the offensive line as much.
Speaker 5: Making football plays.
Speaker 7: Just like you talked about earlier this week, he's played
Speaker 7: a lot better in his last three games. And that's
Speaker 7: why I think there's a little bit more confidence going
Speaker 7: into Sunday, because look what he just did against the Eagles.
Speaker 7: Although we came down to the very end of that game,
Speaker 7: Dak carried the team the whole time, and I just
Speaker 7: think as competitive as that was, it shows that you
Speaker 7: can face an opponent like that and you still have
Speaker 7: a chance all the way up into the very end.
Speaker 7: It didn't work out, but we still had a chance.
Speaker 4: Think about it this way, if the defense doesn't give
Speaker 4: up four touchdowns, just give up three chance to win
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 7: Also, there's an eleven game winning streak at AT and
Speaker 7: T Stadium right now. I mean there's just when you
Speaker 7: get into AT and T Stadium, I mean, you have
Speaker 7: home field advantage, and there's there's that track record right there.
Speaker 7: And Doc has proven to play well at home. He's
Speaker 7: at an eighty percent completion rate in twenty twenty three
Speaker 7: for his last three games at home at home.
Speaker 3: And I feel the same way about him this week
Speaker 3: as I did last week. I thought they'd be competitive
Speaker 3: going into Philadelphia, and I didn't. Nothing, nothing that happened
Speaker 3: to changed my opinion on where they are. I did.
Speaker 5: I just didn't want them to surprise me.
Speaker 3: I was hopeful that they would break through and be
Speaker 3: able to score a touchdown in the last few minutes
Speaker 3: and that would change my opinion that they have more
Speaker 3: confidence that they could. But until they're able to do that,
Speaker 3: I don't have the confidence in that situation.
Speaker 4: You know, we keep saying that though against that team,
Speaker 4: the loss at the end of the season that's going
Speaker 4: to haunt them.
Speaker 5: That said, what are you doing, man? I saw him
Speaker 5: this morning. What are you doing.
Speaker 10: Guys?
Speaker 4: Guy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't know the place you don't know the place.
Speaker 2: Okay, well it never worked too.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 5: What was I going to say?
Speaker 3: I don't know time anyway?
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah he's big.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that fight the pilot.
Speaker 4: That's probably why they gave him the special dispensation leave due.
Speaker 5: We can't we know you're comfortable. Yeah, we don't. We
Speaker 5: don't have a rocket for you.
Speaker 3: He looks like you can still play. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: Well that does it for.
Speaker 6: Don't worry expect it was not important.
Speaker 3: You can't remember it.
Speaker 4: I cannot. It had something to do with the winning streak,
Speaker 4: maybe Dak in his percentages at the stadium, maybe a
Speaker 4: stadium this this will come back in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Will just like write it down, write down the.
Speaker 5: That stuff happens after the show goes out.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: Or for me, my memory comes back in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Oh I wish I would have said that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, all that, David.
Speaker 3: That does it for a Tommy DeVito edition of Mixed Shots,
Speaker 3: and we will shout at you again tomorrow, Go Cowboys.
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